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First Collector's Edition by subscription to The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Illustrated with full page portraits of more than a dozen Greek notables by Leonard Baskin. The frontispiece portrait of Aristotle is by Jeff Cornell. 8vo, bound in the publisher's original green leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. xxi, 331. A fine copy.

Edizione: first collector's illustrated edition. "aristotle, plato's most brilliant and influential pupil, mastered every field of learning known to the greeks of the 4th c b.c. he was a philosopher, psychologist, logician, moralist, political thinker, and biologist, and the founder of literary criticism. dante called him 'the master of those who know.'<br> "the translation of the politics that we have chosen for this volume is by benjamin jowett, regius professor of greek at oxford. for the poetics we selected the splendid version by samuel henry butcher, professor of greek at the u of edinburgh." - publisher